What's the Best PRC Cartridge? ...with Seth Swerczek
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
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🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Ever wonder which of the new PRC cartridges to pick for your new hunting rifle? The 6.5 PRC, 7mm PRC, and .300 PRC each have their strengths... and few weaknesses. So how do you know which will fit your needs best?
Hornady engineer and cartridge savant Seth Swerczek guest stars on this episode, and we talk through the various characteristics of each cartridge. Of course we regularly get sidetracked and tell hunting stories to support our points. This deep dive into what each Precision Rifle Cartridge is particularly good at should help you make that ultimate choice. ENJOY!
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| 0:00.0 | If you wanted to take over the world in terms of cartridges, who would you emulate? |
| 0:05.7 | Well, there's kind of only one name in the industry right now that you would even consider |
| 0:12.0 | trying to use as a role model and that's Hornity. |
| 0:15.6 | The number of successful cartridges that Hornity has launched in the past, |
| 0:20.4 | oh, 20 years or so is boggling, mind-boggling. And today on the line I got my |
| 0:28.0 | pal Seth Swarzik from Hornady, he's a ballastician and now the marketing guru there. I don't know if that's a correct title, but he's a friend more than anything else. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome to the show here. Seth, I appreciate you. |
| 0:42.0 | Joseph, thanks for having me on. |
| 0:44.0 | I do appreciate it. |
| 0:45.0 | And yeah, marketing guru. |
| 0:47.0 | Most folks in the industry know me as the PR guy for Hornity. |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah, you have to deal with all of us high maintenance riserser types. |
| 0:54.0 | Well, it's a pleasure and you know what? Going from ballistic engineering to the PR guy, |
| 1:00.0 | there was a transition for sure, but man, I've really enjoyed it. |
| 1:04.2 | And I've gotten to meet some awesome people like you and several others in your |
| 1:07.7 | field and I've gotten to do some pretty amazing things with them. |
| 1:10.1 | Very cool. Well, I've enjoyed working with you as well. It's fun to have somebody that's |
| 1:16.7 | knowledgeable coming from a background in you know the the ballistic side like you did as well as a relatively decent |
| 1:25.6 | human being to be around too. I appreciate that. So today... Oh, well, yeah, she should be. |
| 1:34.0 | Today we are going to talk cartridges specifically, precision rifle cartridges, more commonly |
| 1:41.5 | known as the PRC cartridges so the 6.5 PRC the 7 MM PRC and the 300 PRC. |
| 1:50.5 | And Seth's come on the line here to go over those with us. |
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